The South western news., 1887-12-07
WASHINGTON, ,. G. Nov. %, ,S7.
EDITOR News:

A0hlNHION, y. ". NOV. rs, 81 &.
EDITOR NEWS:
The week has been a rather un
eventfuI one, but that is usually
the case the week or two before
Congress meets, and generally it is
only the calm which precedes the
storm. The hotel registers are
filling up, and the host of board
1pg houses are made con spicuous
by the placards in the windows :
Furnished Rooms to Rent. /"
Every landlady is very independ-
emf about renting because she
hopes to get q Senator or Member
as tenant who will pay anywhere
from SO to 1926 a month for a
suite of twc or three rooms, when
the whole house rents for only $40
or $50 month.
The mild weather of the past
week has caused the many states.
men and politicians in the city to
stroll along the Avenue to the
Capitol, and to lounge in front of
the hotels and engage in discussing
the cares ofState which rests heav>
lily on each individual Representa-
tive. The evenings and early
mornings are occupied mostly in
framing Bills to be introduced the
first opportunity offered in the call
of States. 1t is expected that
there will be even a greater food
of Bills introduced this, than last
session, and it beng short session
the lobbyists are already at work
martialing their strength for the
onslaught.
Every hing about Che Govern
ment Departments is ominously 81,
lent, and the Cabinet Officers and
their Chiefs 5F Bureaux are ex-
ceediaglv guarded in all interviews
had with them, not t. give any in
timaticn as to what their recon
mendations will be ON impor-
tant questions to be presented to
Congress for action. Even st the
Government Printing OGice where
al official papers are printed, the
strietest secresy is enjolned and
only the most tried employees are
entrusted with the setting up" of
the valuable documents.
Most of the old employees of the
house are to be seen every day
around the House Post Office and
onmittee Rooms, on the lookout
FIX indications, as to the outcon
OF the contest for the position of
doorkeeper. That official has more
patronage than any other of the
officials, and for that reason his
place il more sought after. The
Clerk Of the House and the ems
pl6yees in his Office, sud the Post
master, have always a better
chance for reelection than oth.r
officials, for the reason that their
positions bring them into personal
communication with the new mems
beers long before Congress asseme
ble., and he acquaintaceship thus
formed often ripens into friendship
before there is any thought by
outsiders of canvassing for the po-
sitions. and thus it is that these
officials are apt to be reelected
unless there is change in party
ascendency in Congress. Although
there is still much doubt as to who
will be doorkeeper, it is thought
that the support which Carlisle.
Randall, Mills, Holman, Blount
and Spinger give to Donelson will
result in his reelection.
representative Martin, of Texas,
the successor of Senator Regain,
has quite recovered from the effects
OF the gas from which he came
near suffocating last week before
the Government Department. de-
voted a god portion OF the even
inc to answering his heavy corres-
pondence, which had accumulated
for several days. and in a moment
of Observation-Disclosures blew the gas
out instead of turning it of Fort
uuately for him and his State, the
mistake was discovered just in
tine to prevent fatal effects.
In either my next letter, or, at
the latest, the one after the next, l
will be able to send you letters
shark inc with news. II.